The Man who Documented the Last American Tribes

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4. The photos are all titled works

...and can be found in his multi-volume "The North American Indian."

Two are portraits/head shots, and the other three are of Native Americans in various scenes. All are in their original dark oak studio frames.

We display all but one of them. It has condition issues which prohibit any lengthy exposure to natural light. We looked into having a professional restoration outfit in Chicago restore it, but holy cow, cost was prohibitive.

No real documentation, just some numbers in the bottom corner which link each photo to his own records, and some notations on the paper on the backs of the frames. Anything else is from stories handed down through the family (always to be taken with a grain of salt).

Great-grandpa must have been a regular fan because we also have family portraits taken at the Curtis studio in Seattle, which he operated with a partner.